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2081. Harley MS 1880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1880
Title:
Indenture between King Henry VIII and Sir Andrew Windsor, keeper of the wardrobe, for the sale of the manor of Stanwell (Middlesex) and other estates
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an indenture, or deed of sale, between King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Sir Andrew Windsor (b. 1467, d. 1543), an English MP, keeper of the wardrobe, and knight banneret. Dated 14th March 1542, the indenture records Windsor's sale of his ancestral manor house of Stanwe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

2082. Harley MS 1882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1882
Title:
How to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of 87 recipes, entitled: 'Howe to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias'; Jane Dormer (b. 1536, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

2083. Harley MS 1883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1883
Title:
Collection of moral treatises, including Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae
Scope & Content:
A collection of medieval and humanistic texts on virtuous life. Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae, begins 'Quondam michi meditanti subiit illa quae me saepius occupat...'. ff. 81-118r: Francesco Zabarella (b. 1360, d. 1417), De Felicitate in 3 books wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2084. Harley MS 1884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1884
Title:
Dockets of grants passing the Royal signet
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a register of grants awarded by King Charles II, June 1660-December 1660. Folio 1 is the old cover for the volume: A large sheet of folded vellum, inscribed 'Signet', which has been cut from a Bill of Complaint. The complainant is Thomas Porter and the defenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660s
Extent:
1 volume

2085. Harley MS 1885

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1885
Title:
Cartulary of Dunstable Priory
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Fragments of a former flyleaf with notes on the book’s rebinding in 1655. ff. 2r–3v: Fragments of annals. ff. 4r–13r: Classified inventory of muniments, with lists of papal charters and other agreements, organized by the lands to which they apply. ff. 13v–79v: Composite cartulary, begu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2086. Harley MS 1886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1886
Title:
Keimpe van Martena, Liber Terrarum of Frisia; charter of Caspar de Robles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page for an administrative work (‘debt book’) [not included in the manuscript] by Christoffel van Sternsee (b. 1525, d. 1560), bailiff of Harlingen (1549-1560), written in German: ‘Vermerkht des Haübtman Cristof van Sternsee: drosort zue harlingenn Im frieszlandt, Schul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, German, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2087. Harley MS 1887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1887
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1545
Extent:
1 volume

2088. Harley MS 1888

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1888
Title:
A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592-1593
Extent:
1 volume

2089. Harley MS 1889

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1889
Title:
'Observations Political and Civil'
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing 'Observations Politicall and Civill', a political treatise in a professional secretary hand. On f. 1*v is the initial 'W.B.'. Humfrey Wanley suggested, as noted in the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley Manuscripts, that the author may be Sir William Boswell. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2090. Harley MS 1890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1890
Title:
Inventory of goods belonging to James II
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing an inventory of the goods belonging to James II. Contents: ff. 1-7: 'An Inventory of His Majesties Goods in the Standing Wardrobe at Whitehall'. Dated 15 February 1688 and signed by Edward Rogers, Wardrobe Keeper. ff. 8-17: 'Wardrobe Goods in the Charge of Phi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688
Extent:
1 volume

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